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How Rojava-inspired women's councils have spread across Europe

Could this little-known system provide a way forward for real democracy – from the bottom up – in our failing neoliberal political systems?

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Mesopotamia Dance Society

Mesopotamia Dance Society, at the Challenging Capitalist Modernity conference in Hamburg. Credit: Babak Bataghva, Network for an Alternative Quest.

Every time I speak at public meetings in Britain about the gender equality and direct democracy experiment being carried out in Rojava, Northern Syria, I am invariably asked by an inspired audience what we can learn from there – and how can we implement it here.